Jpm: 15 books

African American short fiction can only be appreciated if read by first taking into account their multifarious responses to their contemporary political, economic, social and cultural circumstances. The stories presented in Writing from the Black Soul illustrate how in provocative ways African American...

Everybody who wants to become a professional writer always looks for the success of their stories and for being read by the most possible readers. The best way to achieve it is to turn to the greatest authors of all times. This compilation of essays, signed by four well-known English and American writers,...

In 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes, so he was arrested and imprisoned. This formed the basis for his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (first published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), where he argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or...

The Battle of the Books depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library, as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. The "moderns" took the position that the modern age of science and reason was superior to the superstitious and limited world of Greece and Rome. The "ancients," for their...

This anthology features a selection of works written during the first century of English settlement in the colonies of North America. These texts illustrate the extraordinary depth of colonial writing (chronicles, poetry, captivity narratives, etc.) and help us understand the origins and the future of America and Americans.

This book explores the advantages and disadvantages of using digital stories as a scholarly alternative to traditional research papers in tertiary education. Digital storytelling increases the student's interest and it improves their learning attitude. Some of the objectives achieved are: The development...

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As...

This book offers a brief but representative collection of engaging short stories authored by eleven American women writers spanning from the antebellum period to the early years of the twentieth century. These authors, pertaining to different ethnic origins, helped shape American short fiction and...

The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. The most infamous spectre in the Hollow...

The fact that for equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense, is the nearest approach to a wilful and unqualified "wrong" in the whole relation of woman to society today. Olive Schreiner, "Woman and Labour" (1911).

'I solicit a sincere and patient attention from those who open the following pages at all. I solicit of women that they will lay it to heart to ascertain what is for them the liberty of law. [...] From men I ask a noble and earnest attention to anything that can be offered on this great and still...

It is for the advantage of all governments to encourage writing; otherwise a nation would never be secure from the attempts of its most secret enemies. Barbarous and prejudiced criticisms on writings are detected, and criticism is justly stated. With an examination into what genius's and learning are necessary for an author in all manner of performances.

Walter Hines Page relató de forma anónima en 'Confesiones de un editor' (1905) los defectos de la profesión al mismo tiempo que desveló sus opiniones con respecto al mundo de la edición. Los críticos del New York Times le reprocharon que hubiera titulado el libro de una manera engañosa, pues...

El taller de relato digital (RD) tiene por objetivo primordial estimular las capacidades creativas de los alumnos en el ámbito de la narrativa tradicional para elaborar historias en formato digital. El relato digital (RD), que surge como fusión entre storytelling y los medios digitales, se ha convertido...